CANNABIS CORPSE Appears In 'In The Loop' Film

CANNABIS CORPSE, the Richmond, Virginia-based old-school death metal band featuring Philip "Landphil" Hall (guitar, bass) from MUNICIPAL WASTE, his brother Josh "HallHammer" Hall (drums) and Andy "Fossergrim" Horn (vocals),recently had a cameo role in Armando Iannucci political satire "In The Loop".

On general release in the U.K. this Friday, April 17, the film stars James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander and explores how the Iraq invasion was sold to the public on both sides of the Atlantic.

CANNABIS CORPSE vocalist Weedgrinder recounts how the filming came about: "We were all in our van on the way to a show in Richmond with MAGRUDERGRIND and PHOBIA when my pal Jesse — who works sound gigs for film and television — called me to ask if we were available for a movie shoot in two days. We told him 'duh' and took it from there."

Weedgrinder continues: "It ended being in Washington, D.C. at a club we were all familiar with, called the Black Cat. It was exciting, but seemed to be a lot of waiting around. We didnt really meet any of the featured actors aside from some ridiculous extras — who wouldnt even pass for a NICKELBACK 'rock concert.' I've never see so many babes, chads and non-black t-shirts at a death metal show. The director was cool, he seemed to be the only one, aside from the Black Cat staff, who liked what we did!"

CANNABIS CORPSE bassist Landphil enthuses: "I think it is great that CANNABIS CORPSE has gotten this opportunity. It is really strange, actually, ha ha!"

Weedgrinder: "We played 'Sentenced to Burn One' three times live back to back, and then they had us pantomime it three more times in silence so that dialogues could be recorded clearly. We were told the final would included a mixture of live and album performance. As mentioned, the director dug it and invited us to appear in the next seen to be shot. We were extras along the bar there. While the other extras had fake beers, the bartenders kept feeding us real drinks. Nickropolis had about 6-7 various different shots in about three minutes! All in all, we had a blast, but there's no business like smoke business."

CANNABIS CORPSE — whose name is a parody of their heros CANNIBAL CORPSE (although CANNABIS CORPSE's music is all original) — will release "The Weeding" EP through Tankcrimes later this year.

See the trailer for "In The Loop" below.